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2020 Virtual AGU Meeting
2020 Virtual AGU Meeting We're excited to join you at this year's American Geophysical Union (AGU)聽Annual Meeting that will be held entirely online. There will be several NEON-related events at AGU 2020, in addition to some concurrent events not 鈥� - 702
Access and Work with NEON Data Workshop | AGU 2020
Access and Work with NEON Data Workshop | AGU 2020 This workshop will provide an introduction to the basics of data access and data navigation: discovering and accessing data via the NEON data portal, accessing data via the neonUtilities聽R package, 鈥� - 703
Upcoming changes to the AOP data product catalog
Upcoming changes to the AOP data product catalog The Airborne Remote Sensing Data Quality Technical Working Group recently made a series of recommendations for changes to the NEON AOP data product catalog. These changes included data product name changes, 鈥� - 704
New version of neonUtilities (v1.3.8)
New version of neonUtilities (v1.3.8) neonUtilities 1.3.8 is now available on CRAN ! Changes in this version include: stackEddy() is updated to work with gzip files (.gz) stackEddy() now allows input of a vector of filepaths to .h5 files, for flexibility 鈥� - 705
Planned聽Data Availability Timeline for Continuous Discharge (DP4.00130.001)
Planned聽Data Availability Timeline for Continuous Discharge (DP4.00130.001) Continuous discharge (DP4.00130.001) has been published for all available sites. See the data product landing page for data availability. The table below provides details on when 鈥� - 706
NEON at AGU 2024
NEON at AGU 2024 Visit us in the AGU Exhibit Hall at the Battelle Booth! The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-scale ecological observation facility funded by NSF and operated by Battelle. NEON collects and provides open data 鈥� - 707
Aquatic Data Product Name Changes
Aquatic Data Product Name Changes We have implemented the following data product name changes to better reflect their content: Data Product ID Former Data Product Name New Data Product Name DP1.20048.001 Stream discharge field collection Discharge field 鈥� - 708
Fluctuations in Buoy Sonde Depth Data
Fluctuations in Buoy Sonde Depth Data At all sites with profiling water quality sondes on buoys (SUGG, BARC, CRAM, LIRO, TOMB, BLWA, PRPO, PRLA, TOOK), the Water quality data product ( DP1.20288.001 ) reports sensorDepth, which is the depth of the 鈥� - 709
Orientation Discrepancies in Lake Buoy Wind Direction Data
Orientation Discrepancies in Lake Buoy Wind Direction Data All sites with buoys (SUGG, BARC, FLNT, CRAM, LIRO, TOMB, BLWA, PRPO, PRLA, TOOK), need to be verified for appropriate wind direction data from the Wind speed and direction on lakes on-buoy 鈥� - 710
2D wind direction data products omit North direction
2D wind direction data products omit North direction All NEON wind direction data at all sites under-report average wind direction frequency in the ~360 to ~5 degree range. This includes wind direction data in both 2D Wind speed and Direction data 鈥� - 711
fDOM temperature and absorbance correction algorithm updates
fDOM temperature and absorbance correction algorithm updates Errors were discovered in NEON.DOC.004931 (version A), the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) for the Water quality (DP1.20288.001) data product. These errors impact the temperature and 鈥� - 712
Coming January 2021: The First NEON Data Release
Coming January 2021: The First NEON Data Release January 2021 will mark an exciting milestone for the NEON program: our first data release. What is a data release? We're glad you asked! What is a Data Release? A data release is a complete set of data 鈥� - 713
Confronting ecological change takes a collaborative leap with the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge
Confronting ecological change takes a collaborative leap with the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge Press release - Virginia Tech Daily 聽 Looking to predict beetle abundance and springtime greenness, among other things, the NEON Ecological Forecasting 鈥� - 714
Soil Moisture Validation Project Highlights Synergies Between Battelle, NASA Programs
Soil Moisture Validation Project Highlights Synergies Between Battelle, NASA Programs NASA monitors soil moisture levels and freeze/thaw conditions across the globe using a satellite orbiting 426 miles (685 km) above the Earth. To help validate and 鈥� - 715
Explore NEON Workshop - HBCU Cohort
Explore NEON Workshop - HBCU Cohort Paulinus Chigbu, PhD and Robert Shepard, PhD, will be hosting a three-day workshop with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) with a specific focus on identifying opportunities for collaboration, and 鈥� - 716
Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI) agreement signed
Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI) agreement signed The managing institutions that operate six different continental-scale ecosystem observing infrastructures, from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe聽and North America (two from Europe), signed a 鈥� - 717
NEON Program Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellows
NEON Program Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellows The NEON program is excited to welcome our first cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows! Starting in January 2021, these three early-career scientists will be working in collaboration with NEON staff and the wider user 鈥� - 718
Virtual Background Photo Contest Winners!
Virtual Background Photo Contest Winners! What happens when you combine the Disney Wilderness Preserve with a herd of Caribou on a mountain with a red fox and alpine tundra plus an AOP mission flight? You get the winners of the NEON Virtual Background 鈥� - 719
Resolved: Temporary removal of foliar trace element data
Resolved: Temporary removal of foliar trace element data In a previous post , we reported that we have recently removed sunlit plant foliage major, minor, and trace element data (DP1.10026.001, cfc_elements table) collected in 2017 and 2018 from the 鈥� - 720
Update 6: Microbial Community Composition Data Products Being Reprocessed
Update 6: Microbial Community Composition Data Products Being Reprocessed This is an update to the following past news posts: Microbial Community Composition Data Products Being Reprocessed Update: Microbial Community Composition Data Products Being 鈥� - 721
NEON Spotlight: The Best of 2020
NEON Spotlight: The Best of 2020 As the end of 2020 approaches, we at Battelle want to highlight the tremendous work delivered by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) this year, a program we have had the privilege of operating since 2016. 鈥� - 722
Upcoming Error Corrections for Tick Data
Upcoming Error Corrections for Tick Data Update January 11, 2021:聽 The corrected data have been uploaded to the data portal. We have discovered an error in the larval tick count data collected in 2016-2017 in Ticks sampled using drag cloths 鈥� - 723
Sorting Out the Taxonomy of North American Diatoms
Sorting Out the Taxonomy of North American Diatoms Put a drop of water from nearly any ecosystem on Earth under a microscope, and you're likely to see something extraordinarily beautiful: tiny single-celled organisms with intricately structured silica 鈥�